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Access Road by Maurice Gee
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
This is a novel of family secrets and tensions, and distant past grievances, set like so much of Maurice Gee's fiction in the West Auckland town of Loomis. It is also vintage Maurice Gee, widely recognised as New Zealand's finest living fiction writer. Publication will be a significant event. New Zealan ...Show more
In My Father's Den by Maurice Gee
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: good
Whea Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer. Celia's death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past − a past that is as secret a ...Show more
Memory Pieces by Maurice Gee
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Sdecondhand. Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts. `Double Unit' tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents - Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons that become clear never went on with a writing career, and Len Gee, a boxer, builder, and man's man. `Blind Ro ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
16.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
The Halfmen of O (#1 The O Trilogy) by Maurice Gee
22.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 9 to 14 | Series: O Trilogy | Reading Level: good
'Nick had seen the birthmark on Susan's wrist. It had two parts. Each was shaped like a tear drop, curved like a moon. One was bright red and the other golden brown.' Susan had always been a bit odd and never really got on with her cousin Nick, but the mark on her wrist draws them together in a frighten ...Show more
The Severed Land by Maurice Gee
20.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
This gripping, page-turning fantasy adventure follows a dangerous quest through a divided world. From the high reaches of a tree, Fliss watches the soldiers attempting yet again to break through the invisible wall. Amid the explosions, a drummer boy tries to escape. As he is about to be shot, Fliss reac ...Show more
Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee
22.00 NZD
Category: Children - 9 to 14 | Reading Level: very good
Beneath the extinct volcanoes surrounding the city, giant creatures are waking from a spellbound sleep that has lasted thousands of years. Their goal is the destruction of the world. Rachel and Theo Matheson are twins. Apart from having red hair, there is nothing remarkable about them - or so they think ...Show more
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